Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Irish Republican Army (IRA) are just as bloodstained as the Protestants of the Ulster Defense League--so why bother to choose, when both are in the business of slaughtering the defenseless? The war in Ireland today is not a war for freedom, religious or otherwise; it is the tragic playing-out of a bloody script of instinctive hatred, of malice and fury for their own sakes. Whatever merits remain in the IRA's arguments for the liberation of Ulster--and they are considerable--have been irretrievably submerged in the centuries-old game of kill-me-kill...
...bothered about his past, uncertain of his future, and unwilling to make the final wager in blood to achieve what he has been told all his life he must do, O'Neill is very much the typical Irishman of the modern era. In that sense, it borders on the tragic that Reid did not see fit to give O'Neill to the world without the necessary coterie of cops and robbers trailing in his wake...
...times Coming Home is too ambitious for its own good. The screenplay not only spins the tale of a tragic love triangle, it also attempts to chronicle Sally's growing political radicalization and her feminist-styled friendship with another woman on base (Penelope Milford). In the film's second half, the narrative extravagance takes its toll. Contrived plot devices, including the suicide of a minor character and the sudden intrusion of malevolent FBI agents, spring up to jerk Coming Home toward its conclusion...
...white plaster casts of live models, Hanson developed his own more lifelike figures and more dramatic tableaux."I think I must be a romantic," he says. "But we have to deal with the harsh reality of our industrial society. I'm interested in portraying the emptiness, the tragic side of life...
...eyes of the startled, revolted world." Later, the Express located a German-born woman in London who had been a governess to the Saudi royal family. The newspaper ran her narrative under the rubric "the real story by the woman who knew the secrets in the heart of the tragic princess...